Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
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Gill's Exposition
Then all the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east,.... The Arabians, Jdg 6:3 were gathered together; not as being alarmed with this fact of Gideon in destroying the altar of…
Barnes' Notes
He called him - i. e. “He was called” Jerubbaal, as being the person against whom it was popularly said that Baal might strive. See margin.
Here, I. Orders are given to Gideon to begin his government with the reformation of his father's house, Jdg 6:25, Jdg 6:26. A correspondence being settled between God and Gideon, by the appearance of…
Cambridge Bible
on that day he called him Jerubbaal Or with a slight change, he was called; in consequence of the foregoing episode the people give Gideon a new name. This is explained to mean -Let Baal contend…
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